This is heart-breaking.

This is why we need to bring back tar and feathers. I nominate Hizzoner for the first candidate. Then we can work on the GOPs who are considering the state sanctioned rape of women who need abortions.

dealing charges. She was selling crack out of the van she claims her son was living in. She could have gone to jail for 15 years, minimum, if she'd gone to trial.

oblivion, we'd be writing her billion-dollar checks. If she'd lied us into a war to help her friends get rich, killing hundreds of thousands in the process, we'd build her a library. If she'd decided her contempt for women entitled her to oppose contraception, she could run for president.

She sent her kid to school. We sent her to jail.

Unbelievable.

This is the sort of case where Women's Organizations should be leading the fight.

Five years in prison for a homeless woman into educating her child?!

Surely this is something out of a Dickens' novel, not a real thing that the 21st century U.S.A. did to a real woman and her child!

Really, it's just jaw-dropping! The long, vulture fingers of Bushwhackism reach into the future and everywhere. Stomp on the homeless! Put them in stocks! Strip Iraqis of their clothes and pile their naked bodies one upon another into pyramids of humiliated flesh for a prison guard joke! Snuff a few of them out--what does it matter? Where will Bushwhackism end?

We are on a bad, bad road, friends. I am sickened by this and by a long list of atrocities--to our own people and to others. It is beyond my comprehension how we got here--though I saw it all happen, like we all did. We leave our people to rot and die in hurricane flooding? We slaughter a hundred thousand people in the first week of bombing alone, to steal their oil? We torture prisoners? We JAIL a homeless woman for trying to get a good education for her child?!

What bloodsucking disease is rotting the souls of this judge, this prosecutor, this school district and whoever else is responsible for this? Have we arrived in Hell? Are we going to put up with this? Are we going to let our country become our worst nightmare of cruelty and sadism?

I am APPALLED!

She pled guilty to selling drugs to undercover officers five separate times. That's actually what she's going to be put in prison for; the charge of sending her son to an out-of-district school is incidental.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2012/02/23/Mom-gets-5-years-for-stealing-education/UPI-96261330043930/

of stealing a year's education.

She hasn't yet been sentenced for the drug charges, but when she does that time will run concurrently.

From the link at the OP:

McDowell was sentenced to 12 years in jail, which would be suspended after she serves five years, and five years probation.

She pleaded guilty this month to two counts of selling drugs to undercover officers in Bridgeport and is scheduled to be sentenced to as much as five years in jail March 27 for those charges. As part of the plea bargain, McDowell would be able to serve both sentences concurrently.

Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2012/02/23/Mom-gets-5-years-for-stealing-education/UPI-96261330043930/#ixzz1nlGQDtCF

She dealt crack out of a van.

The other case, where she's still awaiting sentencing, is for the other two counts of selling drugs, which apparently happened in the neighboring town. It has to be read very carefully.

Doesn't it make you wonder how many homeless moms and kids are out there?

Democracy" to other nations, even if it takes a war or tow, I think of stories like this.

No other nation does things this ass backwards.

This is truly astounding.

There's a little more to this story. She's going to jail for the drug charges....she serves the larceny charge concurrently.

the bottom line is that it's appalling to criminalize sending your child to a better school (the first woman got 10 days for it). That will only be used to prosecute the poor. You know damn good and well that if someone was making $500,000 a year and did this, there would be no charges.

She shouldn't be going to jail for any of this. Some crimes like rape don't even get long sentences. Being in jail for the rest of her child's childhood is sickening. X(

her son's residence. Perhaps the kid should not have to live with a crack dealer.